Stemt Rood! Kiest de kandidaten der Soc. Dem. Arb. Partij (Vote Red! Choose the candidates of the Social Democratic Workers' Party), poster by Albert Hahn
A workman in a red shirt swings a pickaxe down onto a green money-bag with a snarling mouth and skulls, whose tentacles wrap around him and are labelled 'Anarchie', 'Hongersnood', 'Oorlogsleed' and 'Levensmiddelenwoeker'. The monster is labelled 'Kapitalisme', so hunger, war suffering, food profiteering and disorder are all assigned to one named target (scapegoating), and the visual menace is the reason given to 'Stemt Rood!'.
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP), Netherlands; artist Albert Hahn
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Cort van Der Linden Government
- Leader
- Pieter Cort van Der Linden
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Economy and finance, Labor
- Event
- Dutch General Election 1918
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingFear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons: Albert Hahn d. 1918; published 1918)
Albert Hahn (1877-1918) for the SDAP, printed by Drukkerij v/h Luii & Co., Amsterdam, 1918. Via Wikimedia Commons (source cited there: Geheugen van Nederland).
Text on the object
STEMT ROOD! [on the money-bag, and on the tentacles] KAPITALISME ANARCHIE HONGERSNOOD OORLOGSLEED LEVENSMIDDELENWOEKER KIEST DE KANDIDATEN DER Soc. Dem. Arb. Partij [signature] HAHN '18 DRUKKERIJ v/h LUII & Co AMST.
VOTE RED! CAPITALISM ANARCHY FAMINE WAR SUFFERING FOOD PROFITEERING CHOOSE THE CANDIDATES OF THE Social Democratic Workers' Party HAHN '18 PRINTED BY (formerly) LUII & Co, AMSTERDAM
Read from the 960 px thumbnail; the printer's name at the lower left edge is very small and its spelling ('Luii') is the best reading. English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
